The initial pressing of 500 numbered exclusive copies comes with a bar of Femmes de Virunga Chocolate. The cover artwork is screen-printed on cacao pulp paper. The 36 pages interior booklet is printed on French paper and is designed and illustrated by Natalia Olbinski. In addition, you will get a sticker page with lips and beans.
Includes unlimited streaming of Typuhthâng
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
edition of 499
$55USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The regular edition of the album also comes with a bar of Femmes de Virunga Chocolate as well as the 36-page booklet designed and illustrated by Natalia Olbinski.
Includes unlimited streaming of Typuhthâng
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
1st pressing - restricted to 300 units.
Design and Layout by Natalia Olbinski.
In addition to the vinyl, you will also get the booklet and the Femme de Virunga chocolate bar.
Includes unlimited streaming of Typuhthâng
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
This soundscape opens with an interview of one of the farmers on the importance of planting trees. Cacao trees need shade and so with re-forestation programs, they improve the quality of the beans as well as the whole ecosystem because a more diverse flora will attract a more diverse fauna. On the farms of the Femmes de Virunga, you hear the big handmade sieves, made from leaves, where they put the cocoa seeds in to shake the debris out. It is one of the sounds that we rarely get to hear, because it is usually done by machines. This sound really tells you how much love the Femmes put into their product.
Very rarely cacao farmers get to taste the finished chocolate as we find them in the store. With Pennie and Elaine travelling to Virunga, the farmers and the people working around the farm finally got to taste the chocolate and we’re glad to hear one of the honest opinions from one of the employees: ‘C’est Bon, C’est Bon’.
credits
from Typuhthâng,
released March 3, 2023
Tasting the chocolate - Soundscape #3 (1:46)
Composition, production & editing: Vivienne Aerts
Mixing: Jess Fenton
Mastering: Maria Triana
Vivienne Aerts (voice), Corrie van Binsbergen (guitar and electronics), Grace Herzog (vibraphone), Marta Roma (cello), Ester Wiesnerová (voice), Marie Goetzinger (voice), Elana Hedrych (voice), Hayley Lam (synth), Maria Alejandra Jiminez (voice), Moana Avvenenti (bass), Noa Fort (voice), Nadje Noordhuis (flugelhorn), Aubrey Ruby Rosauli Situmorang (Electric bass sounds), Bernadette Steinebach (voice), Karin Aerts (voice), Libby Richman (singing bowl), Luc Reuvers (voice), Marit Stolk (synthesizer), Melinda Faylor (Piano strings, super balls bouncing), Melinda Rice (violin), Susanne Alt (alto saxophone), Susanne Bachmann (saxophone), Virunga sound samples from Pennie Taylor.
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